Sarah-Jane: "I felt like they were funnier before the clock started.
It's an interesting concept"
"I've watched part of the first episode and as you said, it's a mixture of Gogglebox because Jimmy Carr's watching everything that goes on next door, trying to see if anyone's laughing and a bit like Big Brother, because they all come into the house, they introduce themselves, they bring a wheelie suitcase in and then a Countdown clock starts and it's up there in the corner, counting down six hours."
Scott: "Like 24!"
Sarah-Jane: "Yeah, it's just a mishmash of so many different things. And I felt like they were all funnier before the clock started."
Scott: "There are some moments in which you like so many performers on stage, I think Joe Wilkinson does this bizarre tribute to the RNLI and something happens at the end and there is this funny moment because you're seeing their reaction and they're trying not to laugh. But that was it really for me. Siobhan, what did you think?"
Siobhan: "Actually, I thought when they arrived with their suitcases, that must be their prop box."
Sarah-Jane: "Ah yes, Bob Mortimer went in there with one of those whistles."
Siobhan: "I thought his magic routine was one of the funniest things that I'd seen on the two episode that we were allowed to see. Look, I came to this with a slightly different approach because I had seen some of the Australian and Irish Last One Laughing - they were dreadful.
"I think the UK version was fun with a sort of a Taskmaster vibe of people improvising silly things but I think it's the effort not to laugh that made it quite compelling. I was watching Daisy Mae Cooper chewing the inside of her cheek and doing a lemon face, and Richard Ayoade apparently punching his own kidneys to stop laughing at Bob Mortimer.
"It's an interesting concept, isn't it? I'm intrigued to see who is going to make it to the final. I think Richard Ayoade is playing a blinder."
